Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his his- tory . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought ...
... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his his- tory . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought ...
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... genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a ...
... genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a ...
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... genius and creative princi- ple of each and of all eras , in my own mind . - We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjec- tive ; in other ...
... genius and creative princi- ple of each and of all eras , in my own mind . - We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjec- tive ; in other ...
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... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ...
... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ...
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... genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient ac- count of what manner of persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind ...
... genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient ac- count of what manner of persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind ...
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